brief look

collocation in English

meaningsofbriefandlook

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brief
adjective
uk
/briːf/
us
/briːf/
lasting only a short time or containing ...
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look
noun
uk
/lʊk/
us
/lʊk/
the act of looking at someone ...
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(Definition ofbriefandlookfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofbrief look

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Would abrieflookat international conventions help?
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This solution, which explains the octave doublings as well, seems the most likely, as abrieflookat the mechanism of transposition will clarify.
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We begin with abrieflookat the early twentieth-century market for proprietary medicines.
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It starts with abrieflookat plant fossilization and interpretation.
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What follows, then, is abrieflookat what some of these considerations might be.
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To understand the situation today, abrieflookat this historical situation appears necessary.
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In order to answer this question, it will be useful to have abrieflookat how prioritarianism has been introduced among philosophers.
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So also does thebrieflookat the design of the motet that follows here.
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Abrieflookat these three areas will serve to illustrate these developments further.
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In this section, we take abrieflookat each, focusing on the two key issues of design representation and the situation of the designer in the design space.
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Since, however, even the notion of a paradigmatically non-autonomous preference may be somewhat obscure, abrieflookat the current state of research on autonomy may be helpful.
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I want to take abrieflookat two of the most basic skills philosophers can bring to astrobiology, and then show how they can have practical consequences.
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Abrieflookat the relevant statute did not clarify matters.
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In this connection, it is worth taking abrieflookat the position we are starting from.
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It is worth abrieflookat article 2 of the new bank's articles of agreement to see how it is intended to help.
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Abrieflookout of the window will show that the necessary steel has been made available.
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Abrieflookat the facts is worthwhile.
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This brings me to the accounts at which it might be as well to take abrieflook.
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Abrieflookround our towns and cities is sufficient to show the needs which currently exist.
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